Somaya Essa

Somaya Essa was a Tuareg activist from southern Libya.

Biography
Somaya Essa was born in South Libya to a family of Muslim Tuaregs. She became an activist, appearing in a February 2014 Vice News documentary about the war between the Tuareg and Tebu tribes during the Second Libyan Civil War. She brought up the fact that children were being sent to the front lines to fight rather than being in school; earlier in the documentary, one Tebu man said that 101 of his companions were killed, almost all of them being 13 years old.